Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I feel like im in a nightmare, the word ive had stuck in my head turned into a song now that I constantly sing. I haven't slept a full 8 hours in almost a week. I try to take melatonin but nothing works. Zoloft has literally ruined my mental health. I have at least 2 panic attacks a day because im afraid I'll pass out since my body wont let me sleep. I just don't know what to do anymore im so tired.
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
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I've been feeling like I don't matter my wife the other day instead of telling me she was having a pain day when I went to have sex with her she tell me afterwards that she having pain day due to her fribromyalgia and making feel like shit afterward saying she has a list of things from past 9 years of thing for me to do and is always adding more and more to this list and talk...
I hope you get some sleep soon.
I hope you feel better soon.
Write out what feelings, emotions, and thoughts come through when you're at different levels of "tired".
This will help you get past the "stuck" word.
There is a technique I learned in psychotherapy called, "Reframing." Reframing takes my obsessive thought loops and alters them, one word at a time, into something more functional and easier to set aside so that I can stay on task in the here and now. Songs are one of my favorite reframing tools. In addition to the songs I write myself, I look for other songs on a similar theme which help me reframe and expand the obsessive thought loop.
This very post could be an example of another of my reframing tools. Each time I share the obsessive thought loop within my therapy support network, I say it a bit differently. Feedback from my supporters helps me move the process in directions I might not have found on my own. Journaling aids the process further.
Be gentle with yourself and patient with the process, Maree. Oftentimes the problems feel worse as awareness of the underlying issues grows. Keep venting. Your answers are in there.